Wide-field view of the sky around the bright star Fomalhaut
eso_eso1216c April 12th, 2012
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
This wide-field view shows the sky around the bright star Fomalhaut in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus (The Southern Fish). This picture was created from photographs forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Fomalhaut lies about 25 light-years from the Earth and is surrounded by a huge disc of dust.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1216c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1216c
- Subject Category
- B.3
- Subject Name
- Fomalhaut
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Release Date
- 2012-04-12T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1216c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 344.412654, -29.622174
- Reference Dimension
- 9563.0, 10277.0
- Reference Pixel
- 4800.55566742, 5135.47290585
- Scale
- -0.00028313762, 0.00028313762
- Rotation
- -0.42366605750
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Position
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso1216c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1216c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2008-11-07T12:21:38+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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